Why Do Gawker’s Porn Bloggers Write Under Pseudonyms?

Gawker’s gay porn blog, Gay Fleshbot, employs bloggers who write using fake names like “Cedric Dewittison” and “Florabel Mulvaney” and “Brian O’Brien.” O’Brien has been editing the site the longest, but many people also know him for his work as an editor on Gawker’s main site under his real name, Brian Moylan. Why do Gawker’s bloggers have multiple identities?

Is it that the bloggers don’t want their “mainstream” writing associated with hardcore pornography, or is it that the bloggers don’t want their porn blogging associated with the content that Gawker posts every day? If you found out that the same person who wrote “Lindsay Lohan’s Probation Has Been Revoked” also wrote “What’s This Hunky Guy Doing in the Shower?“, would you still be able to take him seriously, as a blogger? Are the journalism ethics that Gawker is so known for compromised if some of its employees write about giant cocks? Also, Gawker can’t afford to hire separate porn bloggers for its porn blog? Yikes.

Either way, it’s a tricky thing, blogging! Some of us get to have opinions but publish using our real names, and some of us have opinions but get to publish using a pseudonym, like “Cedric Dewittison” did yesterday with a piece attacking me. Whether or not that is “fair,” I don’t know. But, good luck keeping all your names and your content separate, “Cedric,” “Florabel,” and “Brian”!

Speaking of “Brian,” here’s gay porn blogger Brian O’Brien/Gawker’s Brian Moylan talking about Gawker’s commitment to gay marriage.

 

And here’s Brian O’Brien/Brian Moylan with Diesel Washington at last year’s GayVN after party.

5 thoughts on “Why Do Gawker’s Porn Bloggers Write Under Pseudonyms?”

  1. Zach, This is actually pretty crappy of thesword to do. Almost everyone in our industry works under a fake name. Who cares if Gawker writers write under two different names. Several authors do. When people are so judgmental about our industry you need to try to protect yourself in case you ever decide to have a non porn related job. Every couple of months one of the porn blogs reports that another person got fired from their normal job because someone found out they have a porn past. With so many people trying to find any excuse to damage our industry you should be protecting your fellow porn bloggers and not outing them because you had nothing else to write about on a friday night.

  2. LOL i love Brian Moylan just because of that picture in the end!!!!! And if “gay porn blogger” actually means “Glee recap blogger” (which I guess it does) then this article is so spot on!

  3. Blog fight!!! Hot damn!!! If there is some way you can work in a pornstar arrest, Next Door Studios being sued for using copyrighted music without permission, and all the Kardashian’s being lost in a plane crash then you will have made my month.

    To be serious, I do respect the fact that you do use your real name but not many do not because they are published in the mainstream. Are you going to call out other blogger friends because they use a psuedonym? That isn’t a criticism. I think this is more than just writing under a psuedonym. This is writing without accountability. If you or Jack Shamama or JC Adams write something attacking a performer/studio/another blogger then they know exactly who is attacking them. Who even knows if all the post of “Cedric” were even written by the same person.

    1. Exactly. Blog about the hotties of “Guys With iPhones” or even review a gay porn using whatever name you want…but if you’re gonna start going after someone personally, sorry, no.

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